Money & Finance: Money Quotes

"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"It's easy to get a loan unless you need it"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out"

John Gay, Poet

"The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"I don't go near the money, and the money doesn't go near me"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China"

John Bruton, Politician

"I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level"

John Bruton, Politician

"If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow"

John Bruton, Politician

"Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money, but because we created economic growth with too much money, and it was not sustainable growth"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - Euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with Euro bonds"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Money just draws flies"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue"

James Monroe, President

"While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please"

Rose Kennedy, Author

"You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

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